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enVision, Innovation, and Action to Address Child Marriagehttp://wilsoncenter.org/event/vision-innovation-and-action-to-address-child-marriage
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>According to the UN Population Fund, <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2013/child_marriage_20130307/en/">more than 140 million girls</a> will become child brides between 2011 and 2020 – an estimated 14.2 million young girls marrying too young every year or 39,000 daily. The majority of these girls do not receive access to education or reproductive health services.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-event-location field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Directions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.wilsoncenter.org/directions">Directions to the Wilson Center</a></div></div></div>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:00:00 +0000lherzer27716 at http://wilsoncenter.org